MOTHER Day by day you remember less but reminded me yesterday how to make daisy chains until I wove you one from those flourishing in the cracks between slabs on your run-wild patio made you a crown then a necklace … Continue reading →

Last night I dreamt of the islands of forgotten loves half Venice half Morocco I followed and ran through labyrinthine streets always losing glimpses caught of those I’d left behind in life whose feelings I hadn’t guessed or whose words … Continue reading →

TRAINS Some nights closing my curtains late I glimpse a train moving through our sleeping town and all the suffering world is drawn aside as by a higher hand who whispers: here is order beauty that man and woman were … Continue reading →

Time I think for an update here of some bits and pieces. An excellent review has just appeared over at the British Fantasy Society website of my ninth book “The Sleep Corporation”, a collection of 31 short stories from right … Continue reading →

THE EAST NEUK What am I without him? who opened these eyes shaped my every perception of this world? As yesterday we drove the coast of our childhood: the red tiled-roofs labyrinthine streets of longing a past from which my … Continue reading →